Cost of passing bike test

[morningside]

Have not ridden a bike for year and years and years and years etc.
anyhow what is the procedure for passing a bike test.
Do I need to do the CBT and a written test if I have driven cars for years.
and without the cost of a bike what will lessons / test cost me.

[Silent1]

i think you still have to do a CBT

Here may help

[RemaL]

just to add, I never ridden a bike before the start of Oct 06. but have driven a car for 13 years. I needed to book in a theory test beforehand, then the CBT and I followed this the next 4 days with my DAS

[morningside]

Silent1 said:

i think you still have to do a CBT

Here may help

How the hell did I miss that .....So about 600 quid then?

[hiccy]

With the onset of global warming and the improving regional climate, do you reckon we should sticky one of these threads?

Or will I just write a generic "how to start biking" article and we can petition for it to get whacked onto the front page?

[anonymous-user]

hiccy said:

With the onset of global warming and the improving regional climate, do you reckon we should sticky one of these threads?

Or will I just write a generic "how to start biking" article and we can petition for it to get whacked onto the front page?

[Alex@POD]

hiccy said:

With the onset of global warming and the improving regional climate, do you reckon we should sticky one of these threads?

Or will I just write a generic "how to start biking" article and we can petition for it to get whacked onto the front page?

I probably was just as bad a few months ago, but that might actually be a good plan!

[hiccy]

Alex@POD said:

hiccy said:

With the onset of global warming and the improving regional climate, do you reckon we should sticky one of these threads?

Or will I just write a generic "how to start biking" article and we can petition for it to get whacked onto the front page?

I probably was just as bad a few months ago, but that might actually be a good plan!

Pretty sure I was too! Not having a go at peeps but we seem to have had a flurry of these posts over the past week or so and I think it would be easier for the regulars and newbies to have one post which covers the most common questions.

Either that or I'm gonna have to make up a "Hiccy generic response" and copy and paste!

[chilli]

Agreed. This is another reason tohave a "permie" biker moderator.

[Mr Miyagi]

The procedure for doing your test is forever changing though as well as ever escalating prices. I did my test a couple of years ago after having 2 hour long lessons and passed with 3 minors. I think that if you have ridden a bike before there isn't much to remember on your test because most of it is about handling and controlling the bike rather than the $hite you have to do on a car test. The test seemed more informal than the car test when i took it too, i think the because the instructor is a biker too they understand more, just a thought!!

remembering the best part of the bike test..... riding at speed cameras on the way home to set them off

[hiccy]

/me get's hat and coat.....

Seriously Myagi, too much waxon waxoff methinks.

[Mr Miyagi]

[DesmoTip]

In answer to the title of the thread - the cost of biking was once described to me as being akin to having a boat with a hole in the bottom that you stuff money into.

Not far off the mark, but I think the rewards are worth every penny.

[cafuddled]

I just passed my test yesterday and in total it cost me £501 for the pass. Done my CBT the Friday before last at a cost of £120 then done my theory the following Monday for £21 I think then went on to do a taster on the Thursday and done a three day crash course this Tuesday Wednesday and yesterday in which I got a pass.

So two weeks for a pass and I had never even ridden a bike or a scooter before in my life. Oh and for anyone that was reading my last thread I now have that GSXR 600 and I am loving it to bit. Never had that experience of so much acceleration that your eyes go blurry before, what a goddamn rush.

[RemaL]

congrats on the pass. I think my DAS in Bristol cost me £620 including the CBT but not the theory

[morningside]

Well done . Thanks for the reply chaps. So I recon saving about £600 should do it.
Right I will sort this out as soon as.

[Alex@POD]

Well done, I should be saying the same thing in about two weeks! My DAS will cost 550 all in (CBT + theory + 2 day course + test)